Top 5 political TV shows

To celebrate next week’s launch of Veep, the new HBO comedy from The Thick of It writer Armando Iannucci, we’ve picked out our five all-time favourite political TV shows.

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Chris Addison stand-up clip

Chris Addison, star of the hit shows The Thick of It and Skins, releases his critically-acclaimed stand-up on DVD for the first time on Monday 14th November.

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‘Angry Boys’: Episode 1 review

Angry Boys stars Sydney-born comedian Chris Lilley (Summer Heights High) as Daniel and Nathan Sims, twin teenage brothers from small-town Australia who first appeared in the mockumentary We Can Be Heroes (transmitted as The Nominees in Britain by FX UK).

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‘Campus’: Episode 1 review

Kirke University, home to Channel 4’s new comedy series from the makers of Green Wing, is possibly the crudest college of higher education since the Central University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, its staff a collection of grotesque super-stereotypes whose self-absorption is matched only by their ability to break into verbosely obscene soliloquy at will.

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